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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services promised to take a fresh look at the 75% rule when it released the proposed changes to the rule in September.
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If youre anything like the staff at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital in Malvern, PA, you sometimes despair over senseless accidents that turn healthy young people into your patients. How many of your patients come in with traumatic brain injuries or spinal cord injuries resulting from alcohol-related car accidents? Ever wish you could do something about it?
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An innovative workplace-based program targeting domestic violence has succeeded in engendering significant change in terms of employee awareness and attitudes, according to an evaluation report from the San Francisco-based Family Violence Prevention Fund.
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A new comprehensive wellness program put together by two companies with expertise in rehabilitation services and strength training does not leave self-motivation to chance. Instead, the program keeps older adults on the healthy path by addressing their total spiritual, medical, physical, and psychosocial needs.
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Are you comfortable talking about return on investment? How about loss run analysis? Those business concepts may sound like someone elses job. But if you talk the language of the hospitals financial officers, you may win unprecedented support for your ergonomics program.
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Do you want to increase satisfaction scores, improve patient care, and boost staff retention all in one shot? Consider switching to a team model of nursing.
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If asked, How do you ensure patients are not mistakenly identified before medications are given? during an accreditation survey, would every nurse in your facility be able to answer the question?
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Although drug-eluting stents were launched in Europe about a year prior to their introduction in the U.S., the market penetration of the devices in Europe is now significantly less than in the U.S. As discussed at the EuroPCR meeting (formerly the Paris Course on Revascularization), held here in mid-May, the slow trend in adoption is mainly attributable to reimbursement policies in a number of countries that cap the amount paid by the national health system at a level below that which would allow hospitals to use drug-eluting stents on all patients.
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Listening to the heart with a stethoscope is the most widely used method for the detection of heart murmurs, but Zargis Medical (Princeton, New Jersey) has developed an auscultatory device it hopes will become the new standard of care.
